Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A life best lived is a life by design. Not by accident, and not by just walking through the day careening from wall to wall and managing to survive. That's okay. But if you can start giving your life dimensions and design and color and objectives and purpose, the results can be staggering.
On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life.
I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.